I washed the hose and filters prior to this, so on stripdown night, we only have these bits to get on with

Turbo tool first

Which had never been used, so I quickly skipped it, and took the combination tool apart

Which had also barely been used! The dusting brush part is quite stiff

And the upholstery tool side is flipping horrible!

The hose end comes apart in a basic way

The wand was pretty filthy

Floortool next, which I actually really, really liked! Stuck down nicely to the floor, and felt like it was actually doing something

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The HEPA Post Filter makes it look like cleaning it is easier than it probably would be if it was fully minging

It's not to bad, and a good vacuum off made it white again

Typical excellent Vax filtration here

The hose entry housing is held on with 2 screws

Under that sits a massive spacing/sealing rubber

Next, the rear wheels have to come off, which involves force, and horrible plastic cracking sounds. One of these did split slightly, but glued up fine upon re-assembly

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The two buttons pop off, although this can be done after the top is removed I suppose

Remove the rest of the screws holding the two parts together and the top lifts off with a bit of wriggling

The cable guide just needs the cable slotting out of it

One nice touch is a metal guide roller built in, I'm amazed that A this exists and B it's not plastic...

The Power Switch sits underneath where the power button sits (funny that...)

Various cable routings

Cord reel lifts out

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Some foam sound deadening that definatly wont cause issues if left with badly maintained filters sits inside the top cover

Pull that out

Another layer sits below that inside the motor housing itself

The amazingly complicated looking PCB needs to be removed

Then some more screws see's the motor out of the chassis

Front wheel is held in with just one screw

To remove the wiring harness from the motor housing, the cables split within the white sleeve here

Using the same locking crimps Dyson are so fond of

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I noticed the sticker was ontop of another sticker... which turned out to be identical

Fancase seal lifts out of the bottom chassis

The suction release valve is buried down here too, held in with a ribber o-ring

And with that done, it's onto the cyclone!

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With the bottom flap opened, the inner part untwists a 1/4 turn and withdraws

Various seals are pulled off

The bottom flap is removed

This thin seal sits around the perimeter of the bin, sealing it to the bottom flap

The bin itself is locked into the top part of the housing with more 1/4 turn lugs

The carry handle is screwed in from underneath the top cover

The bin locking tab pops out of the underside of the handle

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That's it, the machine is apart! Everything was washed, dried and polished!

And it can go back together! Starting with the release latch

Then the handle can be screwed back into the lid

Popped the bin on

Bin seal on

Inner separator seal fitted

And the square exit seal fitted

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Fit the clean pre motor filter (washing machine did the trick!) and the post filter

And fit the bin in place

Pop the floor tool back together

Much better!

Pop the rubber sealing ring seen earlier onto the end of the hose this way round

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Yes! It works very very well. I would be impressed, but being a Vax, a few months of use will see paid to that, but at least we tried!

It sold very quickly though, so that's that done!

Thanks for reading!

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